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size=2>From: Harvey Benton <A
href="mailto:harveybenton@yahoo.com">harveybenton@yahoo.com</A><BR><BR><BR>>>Sometimes
a married woman finds herself in a situation where she may need to be secluded
with a man who is not her husband. For instance, if she visits a doctor or
dentist, or has a repairman over her house to fix something....
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<DIV>My understanding is that in her own home, there is no problem with the
occasional man coming in as long as her husband is not out of town -- "ba'alah
ba'ir" -- and could theoretically walk through the door at any moment (even
though she knows he is at work -- but he could still come home unexpectedly, and
he does have a key to his own house!).</DIV>
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<DIV>At the doctor's office or dentist's office, it would be a rare office where
the doctor and the patient were the only people present and there was no chance
of a nurse or receptionist coming through the door. Nevertheless many
doctors have a policy of explicitly asking a nurse to stay in the room with them
when they are examining female patients, in order to protect themselves from
wild accusations made by mentally unbalanced women. Even though I am not
mentally unbalanced and would not make wild accusations against my doctor, in
the unusual case that he does not call in a nurse, I request that he do
so. I simply feel more comfortable with another woman in the room. I
have never known a doctor to hesitate or mind in the slightest when such a
request is made.</DIV>
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<DIV>AFAIK halachically it is not necessary that another person be present in
the room, only that the door is unlocked and other people are nearby and could
theoretically enter.</DIV>
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<DIV>The case of a single, divorced or widowed woman, with no children at home,
who needs a repairman -- that is more difficult. I guess that leaving the
front door open would help, or calling in a neighbor. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff><BR></FONT><B><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby
Katz<BR>==========<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2
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